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“On no account should any reader not already hooked so much as a glance at a sudoku. That way lies addiction and madness. Sudoku are to the first decade of the twenty-first century what Rubik’s Cube was to the 1970s.”
--Tom Utley, The Daily Telegraph
From puzzlemaster and New York Times crossword editor Will Shortz comes sudoku, the new “wordless crossword” puzzle that’s taking the world by storm! Once you start, you won’t want to stop. These addictive puzzles are easy to explain--just fill the grid with numbers according to the few simple rules--but incredibly fun and engaging to complete. You don’t need any mathematics knowledge: Just supply a pencil and an inquisitive mind.
This brand-new collection features original, easy-to-solve sudoku from Will Shortz, along with an introduction that explains these fascinating puzzles and how to solve them. Once you’ve mastered the easier sudoku, try the last ten puzzles designed to challenge those who want to give their brains more of a workout. If you’re a crossword fan, a fan of logic puzzles, or just a puzzle lover in general, you will be engrossed and delighted with sudoku!
“A puzzling global phenomenon.”
--The Economist
| | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Will Shortz | | Paperback:
| 128 pages | | Publisher:
| St. Martin's Griffin | | Publication Date:
| August 01, 2005 | | ISBN:
| 0312355025 | | Package Length:
| 8.9 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.35 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 22 reviews |
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 Great for Beginners!!Aug 08, 2007
This book helped me figure out Sudoku, I'm a beginner. Looking forward to finishing more puzzles and getting to the next level. I'm addicted!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Not your average "easy" Sudoku!Jul 24, 2006
This book offers more challenging puzzles than your average "easy" books. It was great for the addicted!
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
Well doneMay 06, 2006
I bought (and eventually burned) another Sudoku book which had very inaccurately grouped puzzles. It's very first puzzle, supposedly "gentle", was in fact pretty difficult. I got very annoyed with the book.
By contrast, this Will Shortz book seems to have done a good job of ranking the puzzles. It's a very simple book. Well done. I've gotten hours of enjoyment from solving theses puzzles.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
It is what it says it is, Easy.May 03, 2006
This is a nice little book of puzzles. It is as it says it is, easy. Most of the entries have 30+ squares of the 81 with given numbers, so that filling out the remaining squares is a matter of simple logic. Although nothing but the elements of the game are provided as instructions, the ease with which the puzzles are completed helps the beginner learn some of the beginning logic behind doing them. I find I enjoy discovering the "tricks" of finishing these puzzles more satisfying than I would being told before hand what they are. Certainly I learn them more thoroughly by this method, because I have to intuit them; I actually have to understand the "why" behind the manuver. In my opinion this type of learning is inherently helpful in other tasks as well; that it is to say, transferable to ones life settings in other ways--although I have to admit I couldn't tell you specifically how or why. I think getting school age children involved in doing these types of puzzles would be a good idea, since it would help them learn the principles of logical thinking without the pain of word problems.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Hello .......can you say addicting.................Apr 29, 2006
Not the best Sudoku book I own, but very addicting.
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